I wrote a php page which processes the time markers that I have been including on some posts. It performs a query on the database to grab the posts which include the marker, and then calculates how many hours are marked per category. It’s a stand alone page right now, but I intend to create a page within Wordpress which will display the data. Eventually I may write a plugin with some more functionality. There’s a link on the sidebar for Time Tracking (under Things here), which you can click to see the results.

time: 1.5h

I recently unveiled the website for the upcoming PA Green Party Convention. The design is pretty basic, but I took the opportunity to work on some AJAX stuff. The page is very similar to www.chucksteel.com (I’ll admit that I used a lot of the same code), but I changed some of the backend code to be, hopefully, more efficient.

The only major problem that I’m still experiencing is that I’d like a “Loading…” message to appear while the new content is loaded. There’s a div there which is supposed to become visible, but doesn’t seem to. The rest of the site works, though, and it needed to go online, so…

I wrote a Google module that uses php and AJAX to present the user with the various graphs that are available from their MRTG configuration. The AJAX part comes in when you click the different titles, to load the appropriate graph. I’ll try to make the module available for download soon.

I started playing with Ajax today and reworked the www.chucksteel.com website to use it. I’m most proud of the part where I use the element.GetHeight and effect.MoveBy statements to find the difference in content length and move the footer accordingly.

My biggest problem (in my mind) is that my CSS skills are still pretty weak. I guess everything comes with time and patience.